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De-centering the Individualist Imaginary: Responding to Rosemont's Against Individualism

De-centering the Individualist Imaginary: Responding to Rosemont's Against Individualism DE-CENTERING THE INDIVIDUALIST IMAGINARY: RESPONDING TO ROSEMONT’S AGAINST INDIVIDUALISM Ann Pirruccello Department of Philosophy, University of San Diego annp@sandiego.edu There’s Crito, my contemporary and fellow demesman, the father of Critobulus. . . . [T]hen there’s Lysanias of Sphettus, father of Aeschines. . . . [N]ext, there’s Epigenes’ father, Antiphon of Cephisus here . . . and there is Adeimantus, the son of Ariston, whose brother is Plato. . . . Plato, Apology 33e In his recent book, Against Individualism, Henry Rosemont takes up the modern notion of the free, autonomous individual and urges his readers to reconsider the central role it has played in moral and political thought. Arguing with a clear eye on the problem of social injustice, Rosemont lays out reasons why we should view foundational individualism as a barrier to relieving huge disparities of wealth and unjust global practices. He offers a Confucian alternative in which persons, not individual selves, are cultivated through role-guided relationships, and he argues that relationally constituted persons provide a proper basis for thinking about morality and justice. Rosemont recognizes, however, that the persistent and pervasive image of the free and autonomous individual makes it difficult to get a hearing for approaches http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophy East and West University of Hawai'I Press

De-centering the Individualist Imaginary: Responding to Rosemont's Against Individualism

Philosophy East and West , Volume 69 (1) – May 17, 2019

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DE-CENTERING THE INDIVIDUALIST IMAGINARY: RESPONDING TO ROSEMONT’S AGAINST INDIVIDUALISM Ann Pirruccello Department of Philosophy, University of San Diego annp@sandiego.edu There’s Crito, my contemporary and fellow demesman, the father of Critobulus. . . . [T]hen there’s Lysanias of Sphettus, father of Aeschines. . . . [N]ext, there’s Epigenes’ father, Antiphon of Cephisus here . . . and there is Adeimantus, the son of Ariston, whose brother is Plato. . . . Plato, Apology 33e In his recent book, Against Individualism, Henry Rosemont takes up the modern notion of the free, autonomous individual and urges his readers to reconsider the central role it has played in moral and political thought. Arguing with a clear eye on the problem of social injustice, Rosemont lays out reasons why we should view foundational individualism as a barrier to relieving huge disparities of wealth and unjust global practices. He offers a Confucian alternative in which persons, not individual selves, are cultivated through role-guided relationships, and he argues that relationally constituted persons provide a proper basis for thinking about morality and justice. Rosemont recognizes, however, that the persistent and pervasive image of the free and autonomous individual makes it difficult to get a hearing for approaches

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Philosophy East and WestUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: May 17, 2019

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